Issue in Microhard paring with Slave unit

manzur · 24 May 2021, 16:38

@tom We are using microhard from Airborne innovations 2400 MHz unit on the other side. And I can access the slave standalone unit perfectly with PC.

tom · 24 May 2021, 16:46

@manzur From what I can see, it looks as though the Microhard carrier boards are doing their jobs as the correct network interfaces are appearing.

Have you ever been able to establish a connection between these two Microhard modules in the past? It's possible that one or both are faulty.

And just to confirm, on the standalone side you are using antennas as well correct?

manzur · 24 May 2021, 17:05

@tom I have not been able to establish connection between these two Microhard modules. But independently the slave standalone unit has been used for another system as well and I know It is working.
Standalone unit

tom · 24 May 2021, 18:06

@manzur I see, so the standalone isn't from us. Did you acquire the Microhard module that is in the add-on board from us? And is it also a pDDL2450?

manzur · 24 May 2021, 19:17

@tom Microhard module that is in the add-on board from Modal AI as an add on to m500 unit and same is pDDL2450

tom · 24 May 2021, 19:33

@manzur When both modules are powered on and you wait a couple minutes with no connection, what behavior are you seeing from the LED's on the VOXL add-on board?

manzur · 24 May 2021, 19:47

@tom This is the image showing LED behaviour.

From the bottom

Lnk/ACT : OFF
Lnk/100 : ON
Lnk : ON
CPU : ON
RSSI_1, RSSI_2, RSSI_3 : blinking one after another
RX : ON (continuous)
TX : Blinking (low)

Note: One thing I noticed now is that the Standalone microhard unit we have is 128 bit AES encryption model, where the Modal AI add-on module is showing 256 bit AES encryption model. Do you think this is the reason they are not communicating? All the microhard unit we have here is 128 bit AES model. If that is the case how can we access the Add-on Microhard unit?

tom · 24 May 2021, 19:59

@manzur Interesting, that LED behavior indicates that the two modules are in fact connected. If the modules are searching for each other then the LEDs will cycle.

As for the encryption question, I will look into it.

manzur · 24 May 2021, 20:08

@tom Thanks for your reply. Let me know if you can come up with some solution. In the mean time I am trying to get a development board for the Microhard unit to plugin and see if I can log in to the config-webpage.

tom · 24 May 2021, 21:06

@manzur Okay great, there is an option in the web interface under Wireless -> RF -> Encryption Type which should allow you to change the module's encryption type to 128-bit in order to match the other module.

manzur · 25 May 2021, 13:56

@tom I was able to access the web interface by plugging the Add-on Microhard unit into a development board. And indeed I found the Network ID is mismatched and was set to as pMDDL instead of pDDL. Also the frequency was set to 76-2477 which is okay since I tried with multiple band with the slave unit as well. See the default configuration of the Add-on unit before changing

tom · 25 May 2021, 17:06

@manzur Interesting, thank you for the information! Perhaps I was wrong about the default Network ID, I will take a note of that.